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Word: ponts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Yale head football coach John Pont left New Haven for the more fertile fields of Big Ten football, the Yale Athletic Association did not have to look far for a successor. Within three weeks, backfield coach Carmen Cozza, a long time friend and associate of Pont, was named to the post...

Author: By Ralph Hobart, | Title: Yale Will Sport Double Wing Attack Tight Defense, In New Haven Today | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

...Frenchman created rayon back in 1884, and European textile makers began weaving fabrics out of nylon a year after Du Pont developed it in 1938. But the havoc of World War II and a certain resistance to wash-and-wear and wrinkle-free clothes made Europe lag behind the switch to synthetic fibers that swept the U.S. in the 1950s. Now Europe is making up for lost time. Synthetic fibers have become a $2.6 billion business in Western Europe v. $2.4 billion in the U.S. Close to two dozen new chemical-based fiber plants are being built in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Catching Up with Synthetics | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...Real Danger. The fiber makers are crossing borders and oceans to vie for markets. Courtaulds is building plants in Sweden, Imperial in Portugal, Holland's Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (A.K.U.) in Spain. Farbenfabriken is building in Belgium, Chemstrand in Scotland, Firestone in France. Du Pont will finish a new Dacron and nylon plant in Germany next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Catching Up with Synthetics | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...paints, under the spell of vibrations, the shock one has received," he said. His paintings, such as his 1954 view of Marseille harbor, were made of slabs of pure color held together by will. In his Le Pont des Arts, moonlit reflection, waves, night air and solid steel are all troweled on with equal intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: A Thousand Vibrations | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...about $35,000 to the Wisconsin pavilion for the world's largest cheese 34,591-lb., 14½-ft.-long cheddar, which the company plans to haul in a refrigerated "cheesemobile" and display around the U.S. To their employees, Ford will sell most of its cars, Du Pont its furniture and RCA its color TV sets -at substantial markdowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bargains: The Great Souvenir Sale | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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